A REPOSITORY OF REJECTED WRITING

Image: Rajendra Biswal via Unsplash When you spot me in a red Chanderi kurta embroidered with Srayikkadu patterns, white, green, blue and...

Image: Debby Hudson for Unsplash The women in my family are meticulous record keepers. We aren’t athletes or statisticians or historians....

a poem titled 'No Man's Land' by Rituparna Mukherjee

a poem by Rituparna Mukherjee titled 'Grey'

Image: Louis Hansel, Unsplash She squatted on the damp earth, the folds of her sari spread out between her knees like a net, catching...

by Rituparna Mukherjee Image by Asha Jain via Unsplash I was back at the stairs again. This time it was dark A familiar odour filled the...

image: Tirza Van Dijk on Unsplash Diya looked through the grimy steel bars of the bus window. Crows were perched on cows that dotted the...

Four Years Later She The rain falls thick and heavy. She sits at her desk and for the first time in four years, the words do not come....

They had been married two days shy of 8 years and the silences had begun like a small scratch and then deepened into a wound. It had...

“You can’t bring that in here”, they tell me So I leave it at the door It is ugly but it will keep my dusty slippers company As I walk...